Citation Policy

Citation policy

​The Allen Institute for Cell Science, a division of the Allen Institute, provides the Content on the Site as free open resources as a public courtesy. Any term that is capitalized but is not defined in this Citation Policy is defined in the Terms of Use.

Unless otherwise noted, we own the copyright for, and reserve all rights to, all of the copyrightable Content on our Site. We also own a number of trademarks that are on our Site including Allen Institute for Cell Science (logo and words). Other trademarks appearing on our Site are the property of their respective owners.

While we encourage you to use these resources for your research or other noncommercial purposes, we want to ensure that our Content is afforded proper citation as detailed below in all cases where it is used publicly. For clarification about commercial use restrictions, please read the Terms of Use.

If you are unsure about how to cite a source or would like written approval for a specific use that is otherwise prohibited, please send us a message.

Please send us a copy of your publication or other work citing these resources to publications@alleninstitute.org. This helps us track when and how our Content is being used, and thus guide and support our continued efforts to provide useful open public resources.

Citation guidelines

​If you cite or display any Content, or reference our organization, in any format, written or otherwise, including print or web publications, presentations, grant applications, websites, other online applications such as blogs, or other works, you must follow these Citation Guidelines.

If you use specific images or other data downloaded from the Site, in addition to citing the resource as indicated below, please cite the specific image or data used and the URL that links directly to that information in a manner that would allow a third party to navigate to that image or data on the Site.

General guidance

Primary publicationIn cases where there is a primary publication about the specific resource, cite both the publication and the specific Site. Citation of the primary publication is essential when citing the resource in a scientific publication. In cases where it is not feasible to cite the primary publication, and only in such cases, the Site citation is sufficient on its own.

Integrating our data into a websiteWhen integrating our data into a website, cite the source in a manner that is clear, accurate and easily discoverable and link to the source. Also, be sure that our Content is never displayed in the absence of such citation.

White paper or other documentWhen citing a white paper or other document associated with a particular resource, cite the specific document by title and date, as well as the Site for that resource.

Specific citation guidance

​ImagesFor images obtained from the Allen Cell Explorer website at www.allencell.org, use the following citation:Image credit: Allen Institute for Cell Science, a division of the Allen Institute.

Universal web citation formatUse the following general citation format for any Allen Institute for Cell Science resource accessed digitally through the Allen Cell Explorer website or Allen Institute GitHub: